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Fibre Fun!: Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Maningrida Arts and Numbulwar Numburindi Arts

Past exhibition
10 - 29 March 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tjunkaya Tapaya, Tinka (Lizard), 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tjunkaya Tapaya, Tinka (Lizard), 2022

Tjunkaya Tapaya Pitjantjatjara, b. 1947

Tinka (Lizard), 2022
tjanpi (grass), acrylic wool, raffia
29 x 65 x 14 cm
11 3/8 x 25 5/8 x 5 1/2 in
MM5853
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Yulki Nunggumjbarr, Wulbung (Basket), 2021
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Yulki Nunggumjbarr, Wulbung (Basket), 2021
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Tjunkaya is a renowned multidisciplinary artist, practicing in weaving, fibre sculpture, ceramics, painting, wood carving, batik and printmaking. The stitching skills she learnt in her younger years have developed into...
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Tjunkaya is a renowned multidisciplinary artist, practicing in weaving, fibre sculpture, ceramics, painting, wood carving, batik and printmaking. The stitching skills she learnt in her younger years have developed into a fine technical ability to sculpt native and raffia grasses, and her compulsion to create has inspired her to lead large collaborative Tjanpi projects.


Tjanpi (meaning ‘dry grass’) evolved from a series of basket weaving workshops held on remote communities in the Western Desert by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara Womens’ Council in 1995. Building on traditions of using fibre for medicinal, ceremonial and daily purposes, women took easily to making coiled baskets. These new-found skills were shared with relations on neighbouring communities and weaving quickly spread. Today there are over 400 women across 28 communities making baskets and sculptures out of grass and working with fibre in this way is firmly embedded in Western and Central Desert culture. While out collecting desert grasses for their fibre art women visit sacred sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families and teach their children about country. Tjanpi Desert Weavers is Aboriginal owned and is directed by an Aboriginal executive. It is an arts business but also a social enterprise that provides numerous social and cultural benefits and services to weavers and their families. Tjanpi’s philosophy is to keep culture strong, maintain links with country and provide meaningful employment to the keepers and teachers of the desert weaving business.

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